Field Search

Search with field

Fess stores crawling data to each field, such as title and content, in the indexed document. Since some of fields are searchable, you can search documents by the field.

Available fields

The default searchable fields are below.

Field name	Description
url	Crawled URL
host	Crawled host name
title	Title of document
content	Content of document
content_length	Document size
last_modified	Last modified time of document
mimetype	The MIME type of document

Table: Searchable fields

For HTML document, title field is a value of title tag and content field is a value under body tag without tags.

Usage

The format of Field search is colon-separated query, such as fieldname:searchword. If field name is not specified, Fess searches documents in values of title and content field.

To search documents that contains “fess” in title field:

title:fess

To search documents that contains “fess” in url field:

url:"*fess*"